It has been confirmed by The New York Times and CBS News that Hope Hicks, White House communications director, will be resigning. Since the beginning of Trump’s presidential campaign, Hicks has been a central part of the president’s camp. She has served closely as an advisor to the president in the White House. Her close […]
On Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court will take on the argument between the federal government and Microsoft over the privacy of its customers’ information. The issue? Can Microsoft be forced to turn over emails stored on servers overseas? Privacy advocates believe that if the federal government wins it would cause a problem. […]
On Friday, Feb. 23, the top trend on Twitter was the call to boycott the National Rifle Association (NRA). Leaders for the gun lobbyist group fueled the fire when they accused the media and Democrats of politicizing the massacre that took place at the Marjory Stoneman High School in Florida. A Twitter user, with a […]
Late Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018, the Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released a recently declassified memo. The 10-page memo was a rebuttal to the Republican accusations that federal officials abused the process for obtaining warrants in order to place a wiretap on Carter Page. He was a campaign aide to Donald Trump. Page reportedly […]
Governor Rick Scott and lawmakers proposed the most significant change in gun control for Florida in decades, on Friday, Feb. 23, 2018. They are backing new limits that defy the National Rifle Association (NRA) but they do not meet the demands made by the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last week. […]
Teen survivors from the school shooting in Florida are standing up and marching on Washington D.C. demanding change. They are determined to make sure this is the last mass shooting. These teens have had enough with the debate on gun control and believe that now is the time to end the argument and make a difference. […]
Public authorities stated that a troubled 19-year-old was carrying an AR-15 rifle as he trailed the hallways of Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Marjory, Florida. He then conducted the potentially largest fatal school shooting since Sandy Hook on Feb. 14, 2018. Nikolas Cruz, who was the school shooter, was expelled from the Florida school […]
On Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, the Department of Justice charged 13 Russians and three companies in an indictment that revealed an intricate network designed to undermine the 2016 United States Presidential Election and support Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The 13 Russians stole the identities of American citizens, pretended to be political activists, and used the […]
First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams was the keynote speaker for the inauguration of the 111 president of the National Press Club, Bloomberg editor Andrea Snyder Edney. Abrams spoke from the National Press Club ballroom warning the crowd. He said these were dangerous and difficult times. Press protections remain strong but for how long? The press […]
A few months after Chicago news specialist DNAinfo’s website was taken offline, Chicago journalists came together to form Block Club Chicago. The site is boosted by blockchain and supported by subscriptions. The Kickstarter event for Block Club Chicago was launched at 8 a.m. ET, on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018. Within 24 hours, the club had […]